Grrl Power #171 – Heavy metal shot put
Stalwart practically did do that. He didn’t want to get his suit dirty though. Maxima’s boot probably should have exploded when she kicked the tank though. Mythbusters needs to get on that. “Will your boot explode if you kick a tank hard enough to flip it over?” Grant would have to build a hell of a robot to test it, but I can imagine the maniac laughter when they got it to work.
Actually those guys and really every skeptic out there would really have their work cut out for them in a world with superheroes in it. If one person in a million or so really could run on water or heal with a touch, the number of scammers would increase explosively. Actually it would probably become so rampant the government would actually have to start regulating it. You couldn’t claim you were psychic unless you actually were. Of course that would lead to people suing for the right to continuing to scam people. That would certainly be an interesting side effect of superheroes, which is one of those things I love thinking about, the extended what if’s of a world with one thing different. It’s nerdy unless you call it alternate history, then it’s academic.
If Max really did get to throw out the opening pitch, I can just imagine the catcher sweating bullets until Anvil tapped him on the shoulder and offered to stand in. She’d be the best option our of anyone to be on the other end of that. The pitch speed radar gun thingy would top out at 999 mph then explode.
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I want to thank everyone that’s donated or bought something through the Amazon link so much. I really appreciate the support and it means a more than I can say. Seriously I’ve been sitting here for like an hour trying to figure out what to type. I’ve always been bad a accepting compliments just because I don’t know what to say other than thanks. I wanted to personally email everyone back who donated but it quickly became apparent that I could either do that or I could spend that big chunk of time working on the next page, so I opted for that route. It’s gratifying and validating and… I would say humbling, but it’s not like I was walking around town with a giant gold medallion that said “Webcomic Artist” and telling people to step back lest their mundanity interfere with my creative meridians. (Speaking of scammers)
I’d very much like to do two comics a week for a while as a way of saying thanks, but I don’t want to promise anything because if a job does come along I’ll need to jump in. I’ll try and keep everyone updated with posts here and on Twitter.
Oh and the vote incentive should be updated sometime today (Monday.) I have something roughed out but it’s really rough at the moment, so give Dabbler one more click and check back later.
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Heads.
You had to call it while it was still in the air.
Would it still count if someone used time-travel?
First!
Seconds.
Peanuts.
Toast
Bacon.
Cut that out! I haven’t had breakfast yet.
Waffles!
Instant french vanilla cappuccino!
Biscuits!
Pancakes!
Maple Syrup
Pizza Rolls!
And there’s a college student!
Space Ham.
Beer
Turkey salad sandwich. Or is that too much?
Open faced turkey sandwich on grilled rosemary bread, crusted with asiago cheese, and topped with turkey/sage gravy!
DAMNIT PORTHOS Now I’m hungry!!
Did the Czarina of Tokyo give you that recipe?
Beanie Weenies!
SAMMICH!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL4zHH2oFnM
Badgers!
Italian Cheese Toast. aka cold left-over pizza for breakfast.
Toasted bread with peanut butter and thick chewy bacon still hot from the pan.
3-ingredient cupcakes!
just TRY to find them online!
i think the 3rd ingredient is ‘cupcake mix’ (I’d be willing to bet it is)
I took your challenge, and was underwhelmed. Google shows 10 pages of results. Of course, after the first page the relevance does drift, on page 2 is a 4-ingredient cupcake recipe…
There are a lot of duplicates, but you can find the nutella, coconut, and pumpkin spice recipes pretty easily.
Had to take care of more important things this morning (e.g., read the comic)?
Two comics a week would be great, but only so long as it doesn’t effect quality. Either way, keep up the good work! :)
Minor complaint, tank turrets aren’t very well connected to the hulls, and usually fall off if the tank turns upside down.
Could also make the argument that it’s been damaged enough to where the turret is wedged in there tighter than a snare drum in a freezer.
Both valid points.
Jiggawatt welded it together
The PPO also probably added some deformation to the turret to tank interface. Believe me any deformation of machined surfaces can easily cause them to become inseparable.
While it’s in the air, it’s in free fall.
technically, it’s only in free-fall on the way down.
Wrong. If gravity is the only force acting on an object/system, it is in free fall and no forces are felt within the system. The entire tank, even if it is moving upward on an arc, is effectively a system being acted on only by gravity, so there is no “extra pull” to make the turret fall off.
Here ya go…even Wrong-o-Pedia got this one right:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_fall
so, then, the moon is in free-fall?
The minor complaint that I would have is that it looks to be in relatively good shape for being at least partially sliced and then exploding.
The PPO only exploded the parts it touched. Maybe a few atoms deep into the material. Not the whole tank.
And a unfoccused explsion at the turret will not do much structural damage. The goal is always to either hit a weak side of the armor (like botom or aft) and/or penetrate the armor before exploding inside.
Also I doubt it will be very recognisable after Maximas next move. That was only to get some more distance…
Perhaps it’s the back-up spare tank they were keeping in reserve just in case the first one (or two) didn’t survive long enough?
But now I wonder how Max would handle a guerrilla or terrorist situation.
I suspect panel 7 gives a clue. Any mosques in the area better duck!
one more time I must link this…
https://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/14/church-tank-by-kris-kuksi/#!pc7Ia
this was Max’s noodle incident!!!!
About the boot exploding. Just say her tactile telekenetic feild extended to her clothes and boots to keep them from getting damaged. Like Superman with his suit. It only gets torn when he uses up a lot of energy fighting.
Exactly. The Aura of Effect heals many ailments.
Like a very fast super firing his gun at superspeeds. Sure, it shouldn´t be able to do it, but it is in the Hyperspeed-AoE. The Bullets, however would leave it, so the enemy gets hit in realtime.
All´s well.
That was my first thought about it – it depends on whether Max’s tactile telekinetics work through her clothing. We don’t know for sure yet but I assume a high probability for that.
Yeah as much as it would be interesting doing a comic that’s much more reality based, I guess she does need some protection otherwise all the supers would probably be nude by the end of every battle. I’d read that comic, but it’s not this comic.
Funny how in comics shredded clothes are always strategically placed or sticking on. Gravity does not work that way.
Never underestimate the power of the Comics Code Authority…
which is pretty impotent these days.
or the noise caused by the type of wingnuts who get offended because of a song from Kinky Boots being sung at the thanksgiving parade.
I believe it’s called “Empowered”
otherwise all the supers would probably be nude by the end of every battle
What are the chances Dabbler just Shapeshifted her skin into something that looks like her wearing clothing (even to the Teleme Orb)?
If that is true, what are the chances she will share this information at some point in the future?
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/621
Not nude, but she’s not wearing much either
Still remember that happening to She-Hulk; she took a direct hit from an RPG, but managed to stay within the Comics Code by wrapping herself in anti-pornography bumper stickers from a sidewalk distributor before the smoke cleared.
It also explains why her clothes don’t get ripped apart from flying really reallly fast
Yeah, there’s two basic ways to be superstrong and nigh-invulnerable. If the body itself is incredibly durable and powerful, it would require a similarly durable outfit or you’d end up nude at the end of most fights or even violent maneuvers. If you have a TK shell, you can theoretically do fun things like exerting your full strength through your pinkie with no leverage, and it explains how you do things like pick up a car without your hands just tearing through it, but you run into problems when you encounter things that can pass through your shell (and some things always can unless you don’t need food, light, or air) or people skilled enough to dislocate your limbs and such without directly striking.
Would have been cooler if she’d blasted it after throwing it. As things stand, she’s just showing herself to be a golden version of the standard flying brick.
Considering the shield around reporters, its possible that she just getting some distance between her and the tank before changing it into puddle of liquid metal.
I sure hope so. I was hoping she’d vaporise it.
Yeah, I was coming to say exactly that – “Pull!” BOOM.
How is she able to lift a whole tank? Didn’t the PPO cut it in half? Dave complained about cut-sections being a pain in the ass, and everything! It’s a very cool image though, almost instantly iconic.
Oops. Just noticed there’s a chunk missing when she kicks it up. Ignore me.
I thought that got a new tank, this one seem to missing the blast damage the first one would have.
I was thinking the same thing. The only damage we see is in panel 3 where Max just kicked it.
If you go back a couple of pages, the tank Halo attacks is upside down and damaged by the others, when she starts and is a pile of scrap when she’s done, so this must be a new tank.
No it’s the same tank. I probably need to add some battle damage to it. I just happened to draw it at an angle in that first panel that doesn’t show the missing barrel or the slice that Sydney took out of it, so yeah, that was well planned.
Panel 4 needs a lot more damage, half a tank in the air fly’s differently than a full tank
You know it’s a superhero story when you need to get into the relative ballistic properties of whole versus damaged armored vehicles.
At least they won’t have to worry about incoming junk or dirt from outer space.
Makes me giddy just imagine how they’d handle big-honking space.rocks.
For instance, I can see Syd asking Dabbler for a BFG, just for kicks.
Maybe paining a huge target onto it so they could use it and any splinters for target practice.
Or a starship there with following exchange:
Max: “We can’t name it the Enterprise.” Syd:” Why not!?” (Which I wondered since that pne ep of SG-1. Whey exactly not?)
At least they won’t have to worry about incoming junk or dirt from outer space.
Makes me giddy just imagine how they’d handle big-honking space.rocks.
For instance, I can see Syd asking Dabbler for a BFG, just for kicks.
Maybe paining a huge target onto it so they could use it and any splinters for target practice.
Or a starship there with following exchange:
Max: “We can’t name it the Enterprise.” Syd:” Why not!?” (Which I wondered since that pne ep of SG-1. Why exactly not?)
… Please make the voting incentive be a short comic about Maxima throwing the first pitch at a baseball game. PLEASE.
I second this!
I third this!
Who, What, and I Don’t Know…
Naturally
and worth Every Dollar of it.
I don’t give a darn!
I love this forum…..
“It’s a long fly ball to Because. Why? I don’t know, he’s on third, and I don’t give a darn”
“Oh, that’s our shortstop!”
You have got to hand it to the classics!
Well, if anvil is at the bat, she will have all the time she needs to make her home run :p. (Guess the ball would end up in space :p)
Assuming Anvil has the speed to hit a ball thrown as fast as Max could throw it, I would think both the bath and the ball would disintegrate from the sheer violence of the opposing forces.
Hmm, what is the baseball rule for if the ball is destroyed in play?
Something like this?
https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/
I looked at that. She is throwing the ball at the speed of sound, not the speed of light. I doubt an x-ray wave-front would form.
True. But the bat would certainly shatter. :)
https://youtu.be/idLJIVlciHY?t=3m21s
Bat? What bat? Oh, you mean those splinters.
Not all bats are wood. Not sure if the aluminum bats are cast or formed.
Aluminum bats are formed via a spindle, shaping die, & hydraulics. After the “hardenig & aneeling” process the end caps, grip and artwork / logos are applied.
Thank you “Hows it Made”!!
So most likely they would bend instead of shatter like cast.
I like this idea. I like it alot.
Will the baseball actually make it to home plate? When thrown at re-entry level speeds, I think the ball will just burn up due to air friction.
much as I hate being that guy, I’m injecting a bit of pedanticism here: heating from air friction is pretty much negligible. Re-entry other high-speed heating is almost entirely from air compression as more and more atmosphere is smooshed by the fast-moving body
I would think air pressure would rip the stitching apart and the ball would disintegrate rapidly.
Tell that to the SR-71. Had to refuel shortly after takeoff to allow heat expansion of the skin to make it fuel-tight. leaked like a sieve on the ground.
https://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/sr-71/
also in that article, it mentions that it’s made out of 90% titanium to be able to withstand the “extreme heat generated from going mach 3.2.”
Pretty sure Max could chuck it that fast if she put her back in it…
Make it a Supers baseball game, where you can use your powers if they don’t destroy the ball.
Of course you would have to have Dabbler make a REALLY tough ball.
That would probably be an awesome side comic thing to do, Archon Guys versus Girls SUPER SPORTS.
Betting on the girl side. Harem alone could probably win it for them.
As amusing as that would be, we can’t play a baseball game with just Dabbler and Hiro.
Depends on which one is pitching, and which one is catching ;)
…I wouldn’t mind being the catcher, if Hiro’s the pitcher.
Did we just go from obliterated tank to more-or-less whole tank in one page between panels 3 and 4?
It looks to me like the sheared-off side of the tank is facing away from us, the angle of the shots just hide the damaged area. If you look close, there is only one tread left on it.
But yeah, adding a few burny/melty/scorchy marks around the edges where Sydney’s beam cut it would make the damage more obvious.
It certainly looks like it. We go from clearly half a tank with the neat Sydney slice down the middle, to an intact tank in the next panel flipping end over.
Stalwart missing from the “Who’s who” column.
Stalwart and Hiro- best buds in Archon?
Good eye for details, Mr. DaveB- you didn’t forget the sand stuck to the tank and pouring on Max as she does her thing.
Weird, sometimes when I click on the tags to add them, names starting with an “S” have the s stripped off. This comic got tagged with “talwart01” It’s happened to Sydney a few times. Should be fixed now.
maybe put in multiple cases for “S” names (not to be confused with S-Mart) so the stripped letter still references the same target?
Well, that’s a pretty darn hitty thing for your web development oftware to do to you.
Maybe if you ask real nice, anta will bring you a new version this year.
Now that I think of it, it looks like the work of the evil mastermind the Annihil-letter. His plan is to prevent the correct writing down of any superhero with a name starting with ‘S’. This will lead to people eventually forgetting who the heroes are and allow him to take over the world.
“Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s….um, what was his name again? ”
If this threat spreads to the rest of the publishing industry, we could be facing a world where we see the following comic ad: “In the next issue of the pectacular piderman pidey goes up against the terrible tag team of the corpion, the andman and the hocker!”
No, that was the Spellbinder, remember your Electric Company?
A tag team with Sydney would’ve been sweet too! PULL!! PPO! There’s a sweet extra for the devoted masses ;)
Wow, Max. Kinda scary smile, there. Panel 6 made me snicker, once I read it right.
Is the tip jar ever going to show up on the current page? I don’t mind going back to it, but having it on the current page would make it easier for impulse tippers, you know? ;)
Yeah I’ll add something permanent to the page this week.
Thank you. I saw the link in the text you always put under each page, but I didn’t recognize what it was until after I went back to use the old one. My bad. :(
Hey, what do you call the sections under each page? There are like five different things going on for every page and some labels would help when talking about them. (I’ll spare everyone my pitch about “But wait, there’s more! Now what would you pay?”) There’s the comic, of course. There’s that last line (no clue what to call it) about the comic tucked in the lower left corner. Sometimes there’s a mini comic. There’s the text that you always add under each page. And here we are in the section for fan comments. So, what should we call the comic, last line, mini comic, text, and comment sections?
bonus material – just like the alternate endings, removed scenes, cast commentary, etc on DVDs
Yup. Now that you mention it, it’s a lot like that. Plus the feedback from other fans and the author. That’s something you can’t get on a DVD. Grrl Power wins. :D
what should we call the comic, last line, mini comic, text, and comment sections?
That’s the comic, the “spoiler” or tagline (on other sites, except Something*Positive, it’d be title text), “mini-comic” sounds fine to me (I actually think of it as the “chibi after-comic”, but that’s too long), the rant, and the comments.
The mini comics are obvious, as is the comic/page, maybe the comic post for the text or the comic commentary? I’m not sure what to call the little text thing at the bottom of the page. The snipe?
if it’s the snipe, it should be hidden, so people have to go on a snipe hunt (well, it might not be funny more than once)
we’ll all be wandering aroung the page going ‘weeeeeoooooooo-twittertwitter-Goooooogle..goooogle…’
(the call of the wild snipe)
Works for me. I like snipe for that parting shot, and commentary versus comments. Short and sweet.
Comic + Snipe + Mini-comic + Commentary + Comments.
The first three are the main attractions, but the last two add a lot of depth to the relationship I have with Grrl Power. I mean, the art is fabulous, the characters are interesting, and the writing is sharp. But on top of that, I get to talk to other fans and to you, the author. How cool is that? There’s a lot to appreciate. Thank you. :)
I’ve just been thinking about how strong and fast Maxima is. Think about it, she can kick away a 67 ton tank, without it budging her an inch. That’s much more force than the recoil from the M1 Abrahms tank gun, And if she can lift a 67 ton tank, she can easily lift and carry the M1 Abrahms gun alone, since it weighs 4.5 tons.
In short, she could carry and use a Rheinmetall 120mm tank gun as her pistol. No joke. Maybe carry a few spare rounds in a backpack.
Have her walk around like Vulcan Raven from MGS?
or Seras Victoria of Hellsing Ultimate.
Yes. This needs to happen.
You mean Police Girl?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35lqo1FeJpI (warning for language. Also animated gore.)
could a Rheinmetall 120mm do this -> https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/1043
Actually, good point. Makes me wonder why she carries that pistol.
Probably because it’s a little easier to wield than a tank turret
Besides, her particle beam is much stronger anyway, and she only needs her finger for that
Because some people will take you more seriously if you point a gun at them than if you point your finger. Even if your finger can fire particle beams and poke holes in titanium.
I know, it’s not very rational. But everyone knows guns, everyone understands how to react to them. Not everyone knows gold energy zaps. You might assume that you can survive them, or that Maxima can’t use them for fear of the collateral damage. You might not normally assume those things, unless you’re desperate and clinging to the hope that you’re right. You might do something very stupid and dangerous as a result.
Guns present a much simpler message. You’ve seen people on TV being held at gunpoint. You know that people never make a run for it while the gun is pointed at them. (No guarantees after the gun is lowered.) This makes you predictable, and Maxima likes that.
In short: The gun is psychological. She doesn’t need it for fighting, she needs it for intimidating.
Aside from the Emotinal effect, don’t forget the drawback of MAXimas powers: she can amp up one, but it costs some or all of the others.
She can catch a bullet (presumably while maxing out her reaction time and leaving only a bit for tough skin) and she was able to deflect a larger piece during the PPO test (using reaction time, strenght, flight and a bit of toughness).
And she will propably give us a impression of her max power beam next.
But she cannot do all of that at once.
Having a gun means having a ranged attack that is not limited by how she assigns her other powers or how tired she is from using everything else.
Also, if you’ve ever read the Dresden Files, he carries a staff, a blasting rod… and a pistol.
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. If Maxima ever faces someone with the power to absorb particle beams, she can just shoot them. …or I guess she could still punch them, but whatever. XD
Love the Dresden Files, wish the show would have gotten more than one season, but I do believe Jim Butcher is still writing new books. The latest Dresden novel just came out in 2012, 14th in the series, and rumored to be a new one next year called Skin Game. There is even a Dresden Files Role Playing Game out there.
Maxima (an admitted nerd) carries a pistol because she is a big fan of the first ‘Raider’s’ movie. She is waiting for some bad guy to try to attack her with a sword. When he is standing in front of her waving the sword, she will take out the pistol and shoot him.
Actually, if you look at the bottom right of the panel with her kicking, there’s a spray of sand flying up from her sliding backwards.
Love the exchange between Hiro and Stalwart. Especially Hiro’s delinerate misinterpretation.
Wouldn’t Achilles be an equally good catcher?
he could take the damage, but he’d go into the wall with the ball. Anvil absorbs the Kinetic energy from the pitch.
Hay Dave, shouldn’t Hiro be saying “you do excel at KICKING really hard?” His line makes it seem like Max uses Stalwart for her Kick the Dog moments.
No, seems like a snark comment from Hiro (and for all we know, Wart may have a history of getting kicked to the curb, figuratively, by the ladies)
Actually, the insinuation is that he is being compared to the the tank and it’s current accomplishment.
Would it actually matter? In any case, Stalwart would be awesome.
I wonder why she had Sidney pull up the shield if she was gonna throw it the other way.
I would’ve made it a two-for-one deal, and hurl the tank at the shield.
So she could show off her own strength, and the shield’s strength at the same time.
except then you have a display of 2 unknown forces striking each other, there is no way for any of the reporters to know how strong ether is. the whole point of using a tank as a punching dummy is that most people know how strong a tank is.
I can pretty much say that this test just shows off Maxima’s strength by kicking up and hurling a tank… not the tank’s strength.
Ergo: If someone can hurl a tank, and a force field can block said tank, you can safely say both powers are pretty awesome, and not that it’s a crappy tank.
Maxima plays baseball… with tanks !
“Seriously I’ve been sitting here for like an hour trying to figure out what to type.” -> I so know that kind of embarassment ^^ (you deserve it though). Keep up the good work !
https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/
^
Maxima throwing a baseball
I would call a foul on his proposed ruling, though. IIRC, if the ball (or in this case, particles from the former ball) touches the batter after he hits it, then it’s considered an out.
That is only IF he hits the particles though
As per the article:
(emphasis added).
Grrrrrrrrrr… I put the proper tags so that “It hits the bat first” would be bolded, but have no idea why it wasn’t.
My take on a baseball game within ArcSwat.
Officials:
General Faulk: 1st base
Lt. Col. Leander: Home base
Arianna: 2nd base
Sandy: 3rd base
Records/Statistics/Announcer: Leon
Team 1 (Okay, whose idea was it to name them the Spazaholics?)
Coach: Sydney
Pitcher: Anvil
Catcher: Peggy
1st Base: Dabbler
2nd Base: Harem
Shortstop: Math
3rd Base: Harem
Left Field: Harem
Centre Field: Harem
Right Field: Harem
Team 2
Coach: Zephan
Pitcher: Hiro
Catcher: Stalwart
1st Base: Mr. Amorphous
2nd Base: Achilles
Shortstop: Gwen
3rd Base: ?
Left Field: Heatwave
Centre Field: Jiggawatt
Right Field: ?
(Ah nuts! There is not enough people on the Cast list; Joel is not invited to play in the game.)
Leon: Stalwart is standing on first and Heatwave is being held close to second base. Every time she takes a lead, Anvil throws the ball to second base to keep her there. Heatwave did steal second during the third inning, but it looks like she is preparing to steal third. Hiro ready at the plate. Here’s the pitch; Heatwave is running! Ball 1! Peggy is throwing to third, directly into Harem’s glove. She tags the runner and Heatwave is out. Two out for this inning.
Leon: Hiro one ball and no strikes. Anvil winds up and sends in a screaming fast ball. Hiro swings and he connects. Oh man, that ball is out of here! It looks like the half-mile rule might be in play here. Harem is teleporting to catch the ball, and Maxima is flying after it to see if the ball is caught cleanly.
Math: [ Walks over to third base as Hiro trots by ] So, did you catch the ball?
Harem: No, I lost it in the sun.
Math: Ah, nuts. But at least you saw where it landed, right?
Harem: Yeah, I just told you.
(later in the game)
Leon: Okay, Anvil is really starting to struggle. She has loaded the bases with no outs this inning. Achilles comes to the plate; he walked at his last appearance; a walk this time would score a run. Anvil sends the ball in and he swings. The ball skips off the ground and hops right back to the pitcher. She throws the ball to the catcher, who drills the ball to third; Harem throws to Harem on second, and down to first. Quadruple play and the inning is over with no runs scored. Okay, officially a triple play, but cool, none the less.
This is highly amusing! I wonder if they scored any blerns during the blernsball blitz.
I realize you aren’t putting maxima on a team because she would be to OP to have a fair match but there is at least one person you are forgetting (theoretically) but I don’t blame you since we haven’t met him or any of his crew yet, you are forgetting the space marine captain. Also thre are a few random supers (at least they might be supers) walking around the background that haven’t even warranted a name who might fill the ranks of your teams.
Anyway your doing this wrong, it should be a team of badass normals (Gwen, Peggy, the marine captain, math) and people imbued with powers (Zephan, Sydney, maybe a few others) versus a team of supers
…
One thing I was forgetting was that it doesn’t have to be arc against arc, there are other country/coperate sponsored super teams out there why not make an entire league.
I was reading the cast list to determine who was involved, so if they aren’t named, I did not use them. Hmm, I wonder how ArcSwat would do in a Quidditch tournament (the wizards’ version, not the muggle version). Hmm, for the muggle version, would it be unfair if Max was the Golden Snitch runner?
Heres an idea: make Max the golden snitch!
Max: Thanks for inviting us to watch your match between Hogwarts and the Xavier Institute. Do those of us who can fly on our own still have to use the broom?
McGonagall: Yes. Even the players who are unable to use the magic of a broom are required to put one between their legs like the others.
Max: What is that thing whipping around over there?
McGonagall: Oh, that is the Golden Snitch. It flies around the place and the Seekers have to grab it to end the game.
Halo: Hey, you could play that part!
Max: [ If looks could kill… (and knowing her, they might) ] No.
Halo: hey that gold one looks a little like one of my orbs! i wonder….(catches it easily, juggles it with the orbs, launches it via a tentacle from the hent-orb)….
Team 1 wins. Come on, outfielders who can teleport directly to the ball?
Grant has to be one of my favorite celebrities. I was a fan of his when he was on Battlebots. I believe he still holds the record for most pecks against an opponent in a single round.
If I could choose 3 people to go on a roadtrip with, I’d pick Grant Imahara, Hugh Laurie, and Amanda Fucking Palmer B-)
Since Max’s foot is nigh indestructible (there’s a cameo I’d like to see), any footwear is simply for hygienic reasons, so I could see her wearing a flexible, high-tech boot made of tough material that simply lets the kinetic energy flow and allows Max’s foot to absorb the excess.
I’m expecting that Max isn’t quite done with the tank, as she has sent it further down range…
So, Maxi used one arm to Shot Put the tank? How did she manage to get the tank under her chin though? o_O
Al long as she does not get TOO fast at the pitch:
https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/
Reminds me of that joke:
Two men are drinking in a bar at the top of the Empire State Building. One turns to the other and says: “You know last week I discovered that if you jump from the top of this building- by the time you fall to the 10th floor, the winds around the building are so intense that they carry you around the building and back into the window.” The bartender just shakes his head in disapproval while wiping the bar.
The 2nd Man says: “What are you a nut? There is no way in heck that could happen.”
1st Man: “No, it’s true let me prove it to you.” So he gets up from the bar, jumps over the balcony, and careens to the street below. When he passes the 10th floor, the high wind whips him around the building and back into the 10th floor window and he takes the elevator back up to the bar.
The 2nd Man tells him: “You know I saw that with my own eyes, but that must have been a one time fluke.”
1st Man: “No, I’ll prove it again” and again he jumps and hurtles toward the street where the 10th floor wind gently carries him around the building and into the window. Once upstairs he urges his fellow drinker to try it.
2nd Man: “Well what the heck, it works, I’ll try it.” So he jumps over the balcony, plunges downward, passes the 11th, 10th, 9th, 8th floors and hits the sidewalk with a ‘splat.’
Back upstairs the Bartender turns to the other drinker:
“You know, Superman, you’re a real jerk when you’re drunk.”
I’ve heard so many variations of this, sometimes using other supers (one time it was Jesus). Still funny as heck.
I really, really need to stop reading Grrlpower in class.
Or at least the comments…
no! You MUST giggle uncontrollably and in great maniacal fashion in a room full of your peers!
actually with the small surface area of her boot kicking the tank with enough force to flip it would actually probably just cut through the steel and get stuck… like a pickaxe.
you realise the answer to this question and any like it is tactile telekinesis
You know, for all the complaints about the tank appearance [which took me a second, but it IS the same tank, far as I can tell, and they just righted it at some point after Sydney’s little kaboom] nobody seems to notice that for all the backblast of Max’s hair and jacket and questions about her boot disentegrating, her sunglasses didn’t even shift.
Not that I’d really care [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfCool], I just find it funny that none of the nitpickers went for it.
If they fit properly, they aren’t easily shifted.
That’s because Max does not have a shifty personality.
I’d suggest that she has glasses with the ear-loops rather than regular earpieces. I have a pair of old air-force issue aviators with that kind of earpiece in my car, I’ll put up a picture in reply to this comment later on.
Ah, gotcha. :P
She doesn’t, if you peek back. Matter of fact, she doesn’t even have rubber nosepieces on them.
But again, I don’t really care that much. Poor Dave gets enough random detail flak to knock Maxima AND the ARCSWAT Osprey out of the air. ;P
Why must I think on this one? https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/
Because a whole bunch of did. There are at least three oters who have mentioned it and I thought of it too, but I did not put it up because i thought Max would only be pitching at the speed of sound, not nearly the speed of light.
It’s fair to assume that Arc, having employed supers for many years now, has developed materials that work well in conjunction with their respective powers. It’s possible that Dabbler helps out in that regard, even if she won’t let actual weapons out of her control. (Of course, she might be waiting until some big battle royale before ‘reclaiming’ all of her tech at once, thereby rendering the entire team nude. Seems like a Dabbler thing to do.)
Arc Swat doesn’t exist years yet. It’s very new, as was said in the press conference
XKCD is sometimes just as good for settling these questions as Mythbusters. Link is the answer to what happens if you try to hit a relativistic fastball. Enjoy.
https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/
Did the Mythbusters already try it? If not, then they MUST!
Max was a bit peeved with that tank. However, her next stunt should be spectacular.
And I had a LOLMAO moment when I saw the current vote incentive! Halo Cosplayers! And I don’t mean Masterchief wannabes! LOL!
What’s the over/under for people linking the relativistic fastball from XKCD? I count 5 so far.
Imagine if the comic was actually about her throwing a baseball.
You know, with the shield Halo put up, I really expected something more destructive than flipping a tank.
Wait for it.
I’m guessing next strip will feature a mushroom cloud.
But first, Sydney drops the shield.
“Oh, I thought the tank flip was it!”
nah, i see it as Max going out to BEYOND the tanks current location and FACING the shielded area that Sydney has going, then blasting the tank and the intervening ground (just like in the pre-demo tests,) and the resulting slag will end up COVERING the front, sides and top of the shield dome and Sydney has to hold it until the stuff solidifies… that way there are NO claims of the tank being “cardboard” and other such nonsense… then once it cools, she can crack the shield open and let the reporters climb out the back side to see for themselves… OOH!… another thought just hit me… what if Max is just getting the TANK out of her way for the next demo… this scenario seems plausible in real life, Sydney having to protect innocents against an enemy supers attack… Max is playing the bad guy here and she’s going to ramp up her gold-beams to turn the ground that all the reporters are standing on, into LAVA!!!… they will be in the middle of a little lava lake, on an island that is under the shielded area… it would demonstrate a few things at once… 1) Max can generate a staggeringly HUGE amount of directed energy… 2) Sydney can STOP said energy, and 3) the reporters are NOT going to like the trip home on those buses what with all them needing a new pair of underwear after this portion of the demo…
Why not both ideas?
Melt the tank over Syd’s shield while she’s hovering the reporters+some ground with her shield in a sea of freshly molten rock.
Poor Stalwart, first Maxima makes him look (comparatively) weak and no mention in the Who’s Who.
Something not directly relevant to this page, but I just realized it: Sydney should always make her shield as large as possible when trying to hold it for a long time. Given that it held all the sand in and Maxima’s blast didn’t affect anything inside, even with the shifting air, it’s pretty likely that her shield is airtight. In that case, she only has a limited time before her air in that shield starts running out. If she ever needs to space travel, she had better hope one of those last two orbs covers for her, because that shield will never hold enough air to travel very far.
Someone needs to call the ASPCT (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Tanks).
One of the possible downsides to effortlessly flinging a tank in front the reporters is that one of them is probably going to say “Hey, that thing must be made out of cardboard or something. I knew it was all fake (just like that global warming scam)”. If they haven’t already, they are going to need to get a chance to make sure that the hardware is actually hard.
I heard of a great demo a while back during a military trade show. One of the booths was from company that made impact resistant clear plastic for armored windows . They made a box out of the stuff with a $100 bill inside. Visitors to their booth were handed a sledge hammer and told “If you can get to it, it’s yours.”
I’d just get a LASER and burn through. If not that then a diamond edged carbide circular saw then.
And where are you going to find an industrial grade laser on a trade show?
It is a military trade show. There is all sorts of weird stuff there.
Where else? I’d either bring it along or maybe take any on display at said show and see how long it takes to cut it.
Wow, even the Hulk didn’t toss a whole tank over a mile away. That is some strength. And yes her boot would have exploded if not caught on fire from all the friction generated heat. I am sure the physicists may work out possible energy requirements for said action. Chemical action generates heat. So why didn’t Superman glow with heat the more he did? Shouldn’t Maxima or is the heat converted into muscle energy? Might even have a side effect of lengthening her life too.
Perspective in the desert can be tricky, but the tank splash looks like it’s only a few hundred yards away. Not too far for the press to see, and not revealing Maxima’s true strength.
Depends on how big of a splash she made
True. Desert air is tricksy.
Now i know why they feared her in the war…i wonder if she threw a tank at a mosque…
It was not so much that she threw the tank at the mosque, but that the mosque happened to be in the direction of her throw. Big difference; she did not actually intend to throw the tank on top of the building.
Your December vote incentive reminds me of the story of Charlie Chaplin losing in a Charlie Chaplin look-a-like contest. Its never been proven or disproven but the story has been going for around for a century.
I heard that it happened to Dolly Parton, but dressing up like her, Cher and Elvis are practically industries unto themselves.
it’d be pretty darn freaky to see someone dressed as Dolly Parton, Cher, and Elvis….all at once… hmmm, an idea for Harem, maybe?
I always thought it would be a brilliant idea to “die” then hide among all those impersonators of yourself. Best way to hide.
Isn’t that what Elvis did? ;)
no he just went home. (puts on a pair of shades) now just look here. (holds up shody prop neutralizer)
Hehe volley and spiked a tank.